Ship Studio

The professional studio for modern development.
Build it, ship it, host it — without leaving the app.

Ship Studio is a free desktop app that puts everything you need for
agentic development in one window: an AI agent terminal, a live preview,
visual editing, Git branches and PRs, and one-click deploys. Plug in the
agent and accounts you already pay for — Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode;
GitHub; Vercel — and start shipping.

The web is changing, and freelancers, agencies, and designers are trying to
stay up to speed. Ship Studio is the easiest path to modern development: all
the simplicity of the all-in-one tools you're used to, without the
lock-in. It's a real desktop app that runs locally on your Mac — your code
lives on your machine, not on our servers.

Dev tools for the rest of us.

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Why Ship Studio

• Truly free. No account, no Ship Studio subscription on top. Bring the
  agent and hosting accounts you already have.
• No lock-in. It's your repo, your machine, your hosting. Stop using
  Ship Studio tomorrow and you keep everything.
• One window. Agent, preview, branches, deploys — no tab-juggling
  between a terminal, an editor, GitHub, and a hosting dashboard.

What you get

• AI Agent Terminal — Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode built in, with
  multi-tab and side-by-side agent panes.
• Live Preview — Real-time preview with responsive breakpoints, zoom,
  fullscreen mode, and a locale switcher for multilingual projects.
• Visual Editing — Select an element, change it, write custom CSS —
  without burning AI credits. Pinnable editor panel and a Webflow-style
  element tree in fullscreen.
• Mobile App Preview — Build and mirror Expo, React Native, and Flutter
  apps on the iOS simulator, right in the workspace.
• GitHub Integration — One-click repo creation, publishing, PR
  submission with AI-generated titles/descriptions, and a merge-conflict
  resolution UI.
• Deploys — Push to staging or production on Vercel with one click;
  auto-deploys on every push.
• Projects Dashboard — Visual cards with automatic screenshot
  thumbnails, folders, pinned hot sessions, and multi-window support.
• Snapshots & Backups — Create and restore project snapshots when an
  agent goes off the rails.
• Command Palette — Cmd+K for every action in the app.
• Starter Templates — Next.js, SvelteKit, Astro, Nuxt, plain
  HTML/CSS/JS — plus Expo, React Native, and Flutter mobile starters.
• Plugins, Skills & MCP — Extend the app with plugins, install agent
  skills, and configure MCP servers.
• Env Editor, IDE Launcher, Monorepo Support, Auto-Updates — the
  unglamorous stuff, handled.

Install

Grab the latest release from
ship-studio/releases:

Launch the app and the onboarding wizard takes it from there — it installs
the system prerequisites (Node, Git, GitHub CLI, an AI agent CLI) for you.
See docs/INSTALLATION.md for the full guide.

Official builds auto-update: the app checks on launch and hourly, then
applies updates with one click. Recent changes live in
RELEASE_NOTES.md.

Build from source

Prerequisites: Node 22 (see .nvmrc),
pnpm, Rust stable, and on macOS the
Xcode Command Line Tools (xcode-select --install).

git clone https://github.com/ship-studio/ship-studio.git
cd ship-studio
pnpm install
pnpm tauri dev      # run in development mode
pnpm tauri build    # production build → src-tauri/target/release/bundle/

How it's built

ship-studio/
├── src/                      # React frontend
│   ├── components/           # UI components (incl. setup/, edit/, primitives/)
│   ├── lib/                  # Tauri command wrappers & utilities
│   ├── hooks/                # Custom React hooks
│   ├── commands/             # Cmd+K palette registry
│   ├── contexts/             # Modal, toast, and other app contexts
│   └── styles/               # CSS (global tokens, features, modes)
├── src-tauri/                # Rust backend
│   └── src/commands/         # Tauri commands by domain:
│                             #   git/ projects/ setup/ pty/ plugins/ skills/
│                             #   health/ ide/ + mobile, edit, publishing,
│                             #   github, conflicts, snapshots, i18n, …
├── docs/                     # Contributor & forking docs
└── packages/plugin-sdk/      # Plugin SDK

The backend exposes its functionality as Tauri commands registered in
src-tauri/src/lib.rs; the frontend calls them
through typed wrappers in src/lib/. For the full architecture
tour, read CLAUDE.md — it's the same guide AI agents use to
work on this codebase.

Contributing

We'd love your help — and we've tried to make it absurdly easy for both
humans and AI agents to contribute:

1. Read CONTRIBUTING.md — setup, CI gates, and the PR process.
2. Skim docs/CONTRIBUTING_PATTERNS.md — the
   shared primitives (<ModalFrame>, <Button>, useInvoke, design
   tokens, CommandError) that keep the codebase consistent.
3. Working with an AI agent? It will pick up CLAUDE.md /
   AGENTS.md automatically and follow the house patterns.

Before pushing, run the same gates CI runs:

pnpm check:all && pnpm test:run && pnpm rust:test

Want to fork and ship your own distribution instead? See
docs/FORKING.md.

Privacy & telemetry

Official builds send anonymous usage events to the maintainers'
PostHog project and crash reports to
Sentry. Every event is documented in
docs/analytics.md.

Disable analytics any time from inside the app (Settings → Usage
analytics) — the setting persists and the Rust backend short-circuits all
sends, crash reports included. Building your own distribution? See
docs/FORKING.md → Telemetry to swap in your
own keys or strip telemetry entirely.

Security

Found a vulnerability? Do not file a public issue. See
SECURITY.md for private reporting.

Community

• GitHub Discussions — questions, ideas, show-and-tell
• Community Slack — real-time chat with maintainers and users
• Issues — bug reports and feature requests
• @galluzzo_julian — follow along on X

License

MIT © Julian Galluzzo and Ship Studio contributors.